Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction written by Raymond Kania and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are better read as fiction - that is, as a work that refers not merely to itself or to other texts but to a world of its own making. This makes for a rich work of art and an object of legitimate aesthetic and imaginative engagement. Increased attention to the fictionality of Virgilian poetry also complicates and enriches the Eclogues' social and political dimensions. The book offers new interpretations of poems like Eclogues 5 and 9, which, according to traditional allegorical readings, concern Julius Caesar and the confiscation of lands under Octavian, respectively. It shows how the Eclogue world stands in a less stable relation to reality; these poems challenge readers at every turn to reimagine the relationship between fiction and the real.

Download or read book Bucolic Ecology written by Timothy Saunders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity.

Download or read book P Vergili Maronis Opera written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Greek Mythography in the Roman World written by Alan Cameron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and contemporaries alike; nor would one be able to identify the scenes represented on the mosaic floors and wall paintings in your cultivated friends' houses, or on the silverware on their tables at dinner. Mythology was no longer imbibed in the nursery; nor could it be simply picked up from the often oblique allusions in the classics. It had to be learned in school, as illustrated by the extraordinary amount of elementary mythological information in the many surviving ancient commentaries on the classics, notably Servius, who offers a mythical story for almost every person, place, and even plant Vergil mentions. Commentators used the classics as pegs on which to hang stories they thought their students should know. A surprisingly large number of mythographic treatises survive from the early empire, and many papyrus fragments from lost works prove that they were in common use. In addition, author Alan Cameron identifies a hitherto unrecognized type of aid to the reading of Greek and Latin classical and classicizing texts--what might be called mythographic companions to learned poets such as Aratus, Callimachus, Vergil, and Ovid, complete with source references. Much of this book is devoted to an analysis of the importance evidently attached to citing classical sources for mythical stories, the clearest proof that they were now a part of learned culture. So central were these source references that the more unscrupulous faked them, sometimes on the grand scale.

Download or read book Singer of the Eclogues written by Paul Alpers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Download or read book Virgil s Book of Bucolics the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse written by John Van Sickle and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original work builds on two neglected facts about Virgil's Book of Bucolics: its popularity on the bawdy Roman stage and its impact as sequence poetry on readers and writers from the Classical world through the present day. The Bucolics profoundly influenced a wide range of canonical literary figures, from the contemporaneous Horace, Propertius, and Ovid through such successors as Calpurnius, Sannazaro, Marot, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and W. H. Auden. As performed, the work scored early success. John Van Sickle's artfully rendered translation, its stage cues, and the explanatory notes treat for the first time the book's ten short pieces as a thematic web. He pays close heed to themes that return, vary throughout the work, and develop as leitmotifs, inviting readers to trace the threads and ultimately to experience the last eclogue as a grand finale. Introductory notes identify cues for casting, dramatic gesture, and voice, pointing to topics that stirred the Roman crowd and satisfied powerful patrons. Back notes offer clues to the ambitious literary program implicit in the voices, plots, and themes. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how the Bucolics inaugurated Virgil's lifelong campaign to colonize for Rome the prestigious Greek genres of epic and tragedy—winning contemporary acclaim and laying the groundwork for his poetic legend. Reframing pastoral tradition in Europe and America, Van Sickle's rendering of the Book of Bucolics is ideal for students of literature and their teachers, for scholars of classical literature and the pastoral genre, and for poetological and cognitive theorists.

Download or read book The Magical Art of Virgil written by Edward Kennard Rand and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Globe Edition The Works of Virgil Rendered Into English Prose with Introductions Running Analysis and an Index by J Lonsdale and S Lee written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virgil written by R. Alden Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIRGIL “A truly useful introduction to Vergil and his poetry. Smith combines up-to-date information on the issues with an intelligent and well-written assessment. Highly recommended.” Karl Galinsky, University of Texas at Austin “For the newcomer to Virgil, this book will be a welcome introduction to the poet’s works and their reception by critics, artists, and scholars through the centuries.” Peter E. Knox, University of Colorado, Boulder Incorporating the most up-to-date classical scholarship, Virgilian scholar R. Alden Smith presents a comprehensive introduction to Virgil’s literary works and narrative technique. In addition to exploring the historical milieu, this book considers the reception of Virgil’s works, citing examples from painting, sculpture, and drama. After analyzing Virgil’s three major works – the Eclogues, Georgics, and the great national epic of Rome, the Aeneid – Smith addresses other key topics, including the manuscript tradition and various problems associated with establishment of the text. Virgil’s legacy, including his influence on subsequent Latin poetry and later literary figures (e.g., Dante, Camões, Milton) is also a feature of this study. Combining scholarly rigor and an accessible writing style, Smith offers an insightful introduction to Virgil and the world in which he lived.

Download or read book The Latin Classics Pastorial and epic literature Virgil written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virgil written by Philip Hardie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil by Philip Hardie revisits the topics of the first New Survey in the Classics published in 1967. This latest Survey explores how literary approaches have changed over the last thirty years, with individual chapters on Ecloques, Georgics and The Aenid, and style.

Download or read book Virgil General articles and the Eclogues written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Death and Rebirth in Virgil s Arcadia written by M. Owen Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Rebirth in Virgil’s Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil’s early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet’s attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.

Download or read book The Design of Virgil s Bucolics written by John Van Sickle and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many recent studies of the Bucolics, none has dealt systematically with the evidence, newly broached by modern scholarship, that Virgil's book may be a single unified composition in which the ten eclogues, rather than separate poems gathered and arranged, are parts worked out expressly for their places and differentiated functions in the whole. The present study, emphasizing the need for considered method, approaches the book's unity first in terms of theme. It shows that Virgil deployed themes in three registers--a bucolic, a georgic, and a civic-heroic--that develop and systematically vary through all the eclogues in the order of the book. A thematic system thus emerges in the book as a whole. It may share the traditional functions of rhetoric and music at the level of performance; but it is shown also to articulate, on reflective reading, an ambitious design in poetics. Through it, Virgil reckons with the entire tradition of epos, which he recasts from two modes into three (Hesiodic/Homeric: bucolic/Hesiodic/Homeric). He thus establishes the tripartite frame for his life's work, with its ultimate emulation of Homer. In the process, through the successive ecolgues, he also gradually transforms the bucolic mode from Sicilian (Theocritean) to Arcadian. This he conceives as a return to the source, hence a new begining that outdoes Theocritus. -- Back cover.

Download or read book Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature written by Theodore D. Papanghelis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.

Download or read book The Works of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Virgil written by James Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: